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Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys
by
WanderingPhilospher
on 08/04/2021, 06:21:44 UTC
The puzzle transactions are hard, but not impossible to solve. Some mining farms have 100 000 2gb/3gb/4gb cards that cannot mine ethereum anymore.

how long will it take to crack puzzle #64 with
100 000 1060 gtx 3gb@366MKeys with the sp-mod?

2^64 / (366 000 000 * 100 000) = 504009 seconds (140 hours)


I'm not really interested in bringing this up anymore now that I have my own fork but let me just point out that as long as there's only a windows version then you're never going to be able to pool that many GPUs together, because NVIDIA/AMD drivers and PCI cards limit the amount of GPUs you can attach at once and there is no MPI-kind of code for serving other machines Bitcrack shares like Kangaroo has (as primitive as it may be).

I can run 18 GPUs on a Windows machine. How many more do you need on 1 PC?  Grin

How many can you run on one Linux machine?